Re:Usefool (Score 1)

Instead, I wonder when major hard disk manufacturers will start releasing drives with a clear top cover option?

I'd guess that HD manufacturers haven't produced any window-modded drives yet because:

1. There aren't any easy ways (yet) to show off your modded drive aside from leaving it sit outside the case hanging by cables, and
2. even if people wanted to leave them dangling outside of their case or make their own enclosures for them - the drives would be more likely to fail due to their likelihood of being knocked around, etc. thus increasing returns/RMAs

It would be cool though to see a 'gaming-' or 'extreme-' series of drives from a manufacturer, containing windows on the top and black-light reactive drive arms/heads; assuming that someone comes up with a practical way of displaying the drives outside of the case.